The Artist of the Year recognition, presented to a single artist featured at the Korean Cultural Center, spotlights outstanding creators of the highest class. Selected from among those who applied to the center’s Open Call for Artists, this notable artist is honored with a special solo exhibition. The Open Call program celebrates its third anniversary in 2019 and aims to introduce unique Korean and Korea-inspired artists to the art world in the United States. 

 

Admission to the opening reception including talks by the artists on Friday, November 1 at 6:00 p.m. is free and open to the public, but registration is required (below).  Resonance  will remain on view during regular hours through Nov. 29, 2019.

About the Artist

Jubee Lee was born in South Korea and works as an installation glass artist in Centreville, Virginia. She graduated with a MFA from the Craft/Materials Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lee earned her BFA with honors studying glass at Southern Illinois University where she was awarded the prestigious Rickery-Zeibold Trust Award for her thesis works. Lee was awarded Best of Show at the Glass National exhibition in 2018. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the 45th Glass Art Society Conference in 2016 and was awarded full scholarships from Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in 2018. Her work has been exhibited in the InLight Richmond public exhibition hosted at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as at Richmond’s Anderson Gallery, Page Bond Gallery, and Artspace Gallery, and the Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia. Her most recent solo exhibition was at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, D.C. She is currently a resident artist in the glass program at Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia. For more information, visit the artist's website at  www.jubeeleeglass.com.

 

Artist’s Statement 

Resonance is a solo exhibition featuring the work of Jubee Lee. Inspired by earth’s natural elements such as water, and by extension the ocean itself, Jubee Lee produces glass installations, sculptures, drawing, and paintings that exist along the line between our perceived sense of reality and what our imagination sees instead. “I feel the resonance of the waves in groupings of kiwa, Korean traditional roof tiles,” Lee explains. “When contemplating these, I can let my imagination run free.” In her artwork, images are created through the combination of space and interactive components, such as water and light that emerge from the materiality of glass. Her contemplative glass sculptural paintings are deeply atmospheric, allowing viewers to draw out their own imagined landscape within, resulting in an emotional and meditative experience.